Whistling HeronSyrigma sibilatrix

Diet and Foraging

Diet

Whistling Heron is among the more insectivorous of the herons (Sick 1993). They have been observed eating grasshoppers, dragonfly larvae, walkingsticks, earthwarms, flying insects, carabid beetles, spiders, caterpillars, and locusts, as well as small vertebrates such as frogs, tadpoles, and eels (Kushlan et al. 1982).